WSUS Client Diagnostic Tools fails with "VerifyWUServerURL() failed with hr=0x80190193"

[Jisbomb]

I am running the WSUS client diagnostics tool on one of me domain machines that gives me the the below error message:

"VerifyWUServerURL() failed with hr=0x80190193

The client does not have sufficient access rights to the requested server object."

Can anyone tell me how do I get the proper access rights?

[Jerry]

The message that you get is a 403 error trying to access the /selfupdate virual directory on the WSUS server. The reason for this issue could be the absence of anonymous access premissions on the virtual server or it could be on the virtual directory /selfupdate.

[JUSTICE]

You must have permissions to this directory when you use Basic authentication or Integrated authentication and when custom errors are configured. For example, when error 401.1 occurs, the logged-on user sees the expected detailed custom error only if permissions to read the 4011.htm file have been granted to that user. You can get more informations on this page - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812614

[FLPeople]

running:
proxycfg -d
fixed the problem for me (my WSUS server is on our internal network so no need to go through the proxy server)